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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE..

JOSEPH VVIIITELEY, OF SALFORD, ENGLAND.

APPARATUS FOR TREATING FLUIDS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 615,329, dated December 6, 1898.

Application filed December 27, 1897. Serial No. 663,575. (No model.)

Y To all whom t may concern:

Be it knownthat I, JOSEPH WHITELEna subject of the Queen of Great Britain, residing at Salford,in the county ofgLancaster, England, have invented new and useful Improvements in Apparatus for Treating Fluids,

(for which Richard Henry Turner and I have obtained a patent in Great Britain, No. 3,627, dated February l1, 1897,) of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to .improvements in apparatus for treating fluids, the object being the construction of an apparatus which is adapted to rotate and which will present a large working surface in comparison to the space occupied. I attain this object by the mechanism illustrated in the accompanying two sheets of drawings, in which--- Figure I, Sheet I, is a vertical section, Fig. 2 a plan, and Fig. l3, Sheet II, a cross-section, of myimproved apparatus shown adapted for cooling liquids or chemicals or for condensing steam. Figs. 4, 5, 6, 7 8,V and 9 are partly sections and partly views of details, Fig. 6 being a section through line A A of Fig. 4, and Fig. 9 through line B B of Fig. 7.

Similar letters refer to similar parts th roughout the several views.

In carrying out my invention I form an axis a, having an inlet f and an outlet g in line with each other. Around this axis are secured rows of U or similar shaped pipes e e in circular, spiral, or straight fashion, through which the liquid, vapor, or material to be treated is circulated, enteringat f and leaving at g. The said axis is mounted in suitable bearings a and slowly rotated by suitable gearing, such as a worin-wheel a2, secured upon the outlet g, and a Worm a3 in gear therewith.

By preference I form the hollow axis of the apparatus hereinbefore referred to longitudinally in sections or blocks a, so as to be capable of being secured together by bolts b or other suitable means in any desired number. The sections or blocks a I may form externally triangular, square, hexangular, or of ether suitable angular shapekin the present instance square. ln order to set the said sections or blocks square with each other, a frame c is placed between each two sections or blocks, fitting half-way into the same, as

shown in Figs. 4 and 5, or in lieu of the said frame projections may be cast on one section or block adapted to rit into the adjacent one, as will be readily understood. Each of the said sections or blocks a has ports cl formed across their corners, (see Figs. 4, 5, and 6,) which are adapted to communicate with U or other suitably shaped pipes e e', bolted or otherwise secured thereto. Two or more of the pipes e, as the case may be, are secured upon each of the sections or blocks a in a circle, while the pipe e is fixed at a right or any other suitable angle to the pipes e, one member being bolted or otherwise secured to the one section or block a and the other member to the adjacent one, (see more particularly Figs. l, 2, and 3,) so as to form communication between each two sections or blocks a successively.

The outer sections or blocks a of the appa- `ratus (see Figs. 7, 8, and 9) have each a port d, which leads to the centerl of the axis of the apparatus and which are formed with or coupled to the inlet and outlet pipesfaud g, respectively.

In some cases I may fix to the section or block a at the inlet and outlet end of the axis of the apparatus a safety-valve h, respectively, a port h being formed in the respec- ,Y

tive section or block to communicate with the inlet and outlet ports d. (See more particularly Fig. 9.)

The liquid, which enters through theinletpipe f, circulates lirst' through the pipes e, arranged in a circle on the respective section or block, then passes through the cross-pipe e to the pipes e of the adjacent section or block, and so on successively until it reaches the outlet-pipe g. It will thus be readily un-` derstood that by increasing the number of the said sections or blocksor the length of the said circulating-pipes any size of apparatus, according to the capacity required, can be built rapidly.

When using my improved apparatus for cooling liquids or chemicals or for condensing steam, I employ same in an open (or closed) vessel t, as shown in the drawings, wholly or partly filled with water andwithout the said Scrapers, while when using same for mixing the said vessel or chamber may be dispensed with.

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What Claim as my invention, and desire the pipe connections radiating from the seoto secure by Letters Patent, istions and connected with the ports thereof l. In Combination, the axis comprising a and the pipes e extending from one section 15 series of sections each having independent| to the next section7 lsubstantially as de- 5 ports therethrough and the series of pipes scribed.

connected therewith so that the iuid eircu- In witness whereof I have hereunto set my lates through the pipes and ports in sueceshand in presence of two Witnesses. sion from an inlet at one end of the axis to y T an outlet at the other, substantially as de- JOSEPH WHITELEX' Io scribed. Witnesses:

2. In combination, the axis oomprising'a FERD. BOSSHARDT, series of sections having ports therethrough, STANLEY E. BRAMALL. 

